marchie_uk

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by marchie_uk 1y ago
All of the stories celebrating the regrowth are from August 2024. They describe 12 “sprouts” - with a hope that they might grow into something more. As of March 2025 - they hadn’t. You claimed the tree was “regrowing with vigour” - this is
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by marchie_uk 1y ago
It is absolutely not “regrowing with vigour”. When I visited six weeks ago, there was one very small sprout a few inches in size. For comparison, we had to fell a mature sycamore on our land last year; this now has more than a dozen shoots
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by marchie_uk 2y ago
Cash is backed by a government that can exert influence and control over its population and counterparts with policy, laws or - at the extreme end - force.
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by marchie_uk 2y ago
> The NFL seems to be quite particular (in a good way) about the quality of the delivery of their content Alas, my experience with the NFL in the UK does not reflect that. DAZN have the rights to stream NFL games here, and there are aspe
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by marchie_uk 4y ago
We had a very similar experience in Paris. Six of us were running in the Paris Marathon, and we'd booked an AirBnB months in advance. Come the week of the marathon, the booking got cancelled by the host without explanation. When we pol
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by marchie_uk 4y ago
And follow that up with a couple of hundred million to FC Barcelona...!
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by marchie_uk 4y ago
Great fun - bravo! One observation from me, using Firefox on a 2019 MacBook Pro: my computer got very warm while playing, and the cooling fans were running much higher than normal. It looks like the page is using a lot of CPU.
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by marchie_uk 4y ago
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven... An inspirational anecdote that demonstrates the life-changing value of keeping information accessible to everyone.